Middle School General Music Curriculum Guide

Middle School General Music is a class I have such a passion for. The possibilities of lesson plans are ENDLESS! This resource provides you with multiple unit ideas to include in your class. Each unit has vocabulary suggestions, project ideas, recording suggestions, topics for discussion and more! Before each unit, a preface is provided giving you tips on implementing each unit.

Units include:

Composers - includes composers to use, suggested listening, commercials that use classical music, vocab words and more!

Music Cultures - includes countries to use, world instruments, potential vocab and more!

Music Through the Decades - includes 1920s-1990s, genres to use, musicians to include, historic events to tie-in and more!

Movie Music - includes vocabulary goals, activity ideas, movie clips to use, composers and more!

Songwriting - includes vocabulary, songwriting tips and sub-units to incorporate with songwriting and more!

Broadway - includes vocabulary, composers, historic events, sub-unit ideas, musical pieces to include and more!

The information provided for each unit varies and is tailored to each unit. Please note: these are not lessons plans or actual projects/activities. This resource outlines units for you - it is up to you how to implement them.